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In Dr. Smullyan's honor I'll offer this thought-provoking question: IF Ray confided in you that he was a pathological liar... would you believe him?...
Moving on, as a professional logician, I'm sure Ray appreciates the "Wason Selection Task," a simple-seeming reasoning test that most of you have likely seen in one form or another, and that most people err on the first time they attempt it (picking 2 cards out of 4 to confirm an initial supposition). But do people mess up because of the logic involved or simply because of the wording? A wonderful piece on the Wason test from Nautilus tries to address that question:
http://nautil.us/blog/the-simple-logical-puzzle-that-shows-how-illogical-people-are
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